Playing at the Reservoir

After the reunion, we went to SLC and played with the cousin. We went to a splash park, had lots of dinners with family, visited BYU campus and showed the kids where we lived and studied on campus and went to Uncle Kyle's family Reservoir on Peterson, Ut. The kids had a blast hunting for frogs, snakes and salamanders. They went canoeing and walked around the reservoir looking for anything living they could find.

Jake fell in love with the frogs and salamanders. He just sat at the bucket full of frogs and played with them for hours. He would pick them up and play with them, but apparently he played with them too hard and squished on of them to death. His cousin came to me to tell me that a frog had white curly things coming out of his side after Jake played with him. So, we had to teach Jake to be gentle with the poor things.

He also loved the Salamanders and kept playing with it and talking about it for days after. Another fun day in utah!

I forgot to mention that the kids ran all the way back from the reservoir. It was 2 1/2 miles from the house to the reservoir and the kids ran a lot of the way. We picked up many of them along the way in our ATV and dropped them off when they wanted to run again. But Hannah was a trooper. She ran most of the way and did it in flip flops. She needed a ride for about a 1/4 mile because her side hurt... but other than that she ran and was a great sport!